Hi, I have lot's of content related to freewares and programming(I am a programmer myself) and I have made two sites, one on programming and the other one on softwares(list of softwares on spyware/antivirus). Now how can I promote such kind of sites ? I am a member of lot's of tech forums so I will put that in my signature but other than that how can I get some traffic ? Regards
Assuming that your site is good and has all the things it needs the next step is to visit the directories forum here and work through the threads and submit your sites like crazy. They may not bring traffic but they will build your PR and increase your site in the SERPs. Making useful forums posts helps though and I still get hits from posts I made years ago on particular topics where I have posted a code snippet or example on my site. Good luck Sarah
If you're a programmer, offer something for free that others can use that will link back to your website ... an idea! I know someone who built a counter script, and everyone that uses it one their sites automatically link back to his site ... have fun!
go to http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/ where you will learn about PAD's which are XML (?) files located on your server and which you can submit to shareware places once ... any changes to your PAD is then automatically picked up by the shareware places that have the link to your PAD's this site also has a list of shareware places where you can submit your PAD files to + a program that will help you generate your own PAD's this is a great way to promote your software although at first there is some work, but once done, the rest is easy serge
You need to get link exchanges. You can submit to directories or, as Diamond008 said, you can email related sites. You can also do press releases and join more webmaster forums. Another not well known trick is to write mini articles and upload them to filsharing networks. They will circulate, and you will receive a bunch of traffic from that.